Notes!

Hi! It's my first finished fanfiction. I tried to correct it and I know there are a lot of mistakes. I decided to publish it because I don't want to fall into the trap of perfectionism and constant improvement. Enjoy this story!
This fanfic has been translated from Polish into English by TheRosalie. Thank you very much! ^^

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Emmet woke up, and like every day, he brewed the water and he poured it into a mug with the text "Everything is awesome". Previously poured coffee made the liquid dark brown. He added five sugar cubes, which perfectly blend in with the bitter taste.

He headed toward his room, rubbing his eyes with his hand. Suddenly his mug fell, spilling the dark drink all over the floor. He upbraided himself for his stupid clumsiness, which often caused him trouble. He crouched down to lift the cup off the floor, but his fingers went through. Emmet looked at his hands, his body became invisible.

Terrified, he stood up abruptly and examined his whole body. It hasn't happened only with his hands. Without hesitating, he ran toward the phone on the table next to the couch. But the more invisible he became, the more he lost strength. He fell on the ground. Dark spots appeared in front of his eyes. He felt as if some strength took all his energy away. He knew one man, who also experienced this. He has never thought the same would happen to him. But it didn't make sense. But he is not Rex. His world exists, he's still alive.

He closed his eyes, thinking this is the end. But instead of empty nothingness, he was still in the ground. Surprised, he raised his aching head, but when he moved, all of his body hurt.

Expect muscle pain, nothing really happened to him. He sighed deeply in relief. But where is he? He looked around. Around him were trees, whose average size was about fifteen meters, and their crowns rose widely towards the sun, effectively blocking bright rays.

He didn't recognize this place. He must have been on some unknown planet or dimension. How else could he explain what had just happened to him? He moved somewhere.

He decided to explore the forest, he didn't have any other choice. He didn't even have time to call and yell for help. He couldn't wait for others to realize that he was gone.

He walked carefully through the bushes and thick trunks. Suddenly he stumbled and fell into a spiky plant, which made many holes in his clothes and also hurt him. He cursed at how much unlucky he was.

He still couldn't see any path that leads him somewhere. Also, he didn't know much about the woods and he didn't know how to find his way out. Everything in his eyes looked the same. He didn't experience enough adventures to gain more experience.

Suddenly he heard something behind him. he turned around. He examined the movements of the branches, something had to move them. Of course, he didn't have any weapons, but his two powers should be enough to fight the predator. However, he still felt fear of the unknown. It could have been a monster.

"Emmet?" He heard a voice. He swung, but the person grabbed his hand without much effort before he could depend on himself

"Rex?" He dropped his hand and opened his mouth wide. "You are alive... do you even exist? Or maybe I don't exist and we're in a weird dimension for nonexistent people?"

"I exist. And you too" He laughed and then his face was serious. "But I don't know where we are. I'll tell you what I know in a moment. But first, we need to find my ship. It is small, so it will be hard. Maybe it crashed in this forest." He walked to the tree and started climbing

"Wait a minute!" Emmet followed him. Climbing was a little worse for him because he didn't do it for a while. "But in general, where are we?"

"I'd like to know it too, kiddo" He reached out to him to help him climb the thick branch. "I built a ship that can travel between dimensions, but..." He bit his lower lip and frowned. "There were some complications" His voice sounded heavy as if he was ashamed to admit to him that he had done something wrong. "I didn't predict that I wouldn't have enough energy to get into your dimension and I landed here. And that's probably why you are here because some anomaly in your world must have taken place and brought you to where I came from - here, but I really don't know what it means 'here'. That's why we're climbing a tree. Maybe we'll see my ship from the top or even a hint where it is"

Emmet was carefully analyzing what his friend had to say. Despite what Rex did to him, he would forgive him. After all, they are the same person, only each of them has gone through different things. Although he hoped that he would give Rex a second chance, but he began to disappear, and he explained that by a changed future he has no right to exist. But he is here, he is alive, he has not been erased. The builder came to the conclusion that it really works differently than in "Back to the Future".

The archaeologist saw several broken tops of the trees in the distance. It looked as if it had cut something. Such destruction could only be done by his ship.

"We have to go to the southwest" He pointed the way and hopped down from the tree, looking up. He was waiting for his friend. "Come on, Emmet. We need to find the ship as soon as it's possible, and then think about how to repair the generator. And we still need to find out how to power it. I hope that we'll find it quickly.

"Okay" He came down from the tree. "I'm coming"

After a few hours wandering, the sky became dark blue. They had to stop, make a fire and make a place to sleep.

During the day they could also come across predators, but the night beasts are adapted to such conditions, and they are not.

Brickowsky's raised his head. The moon and stars filled with light the entire sky. Of course, it was a different dimension. The constellations were arranged in completely different shapes. He wondered what they were called in this world and whether anyone had called them.

Rex had previously caught an animal that looked like a rabbit. Emmet didn't want to watch him making this rabbit food. He ate meat but watching the whole process made him nauseous. He only looked when his friend handed him a piece of meat stuffed on a stick that had already been baked.

"Will you tell me now, how do you exist?" He started eating baked meat. It tasted not really good without any spices.

"Right" He stood up and took a small device from his pocket. He put them on the grass and a neon picture appeared.

"Is this the timeline?" He asked a little surprised.

"Yes, exactly. You better listen carefully because you really need to focus to understand it". He tapped him lightly on the forehead. "I was thinking about it for several months, so there will be a lot of material to understand.

Emmet shook his head as a sign that he understood. He prepared himself mentally to be able to process all new information.

"Look, these two points on the timeline are me and you. You are on the left, I am on the right because time flies to the right. You were once past me. I built a machine and moved in time to change my future." He moved the picture with his hand to the left of the timeline. "It was all right then because there was a lot of opportunities for you to become me. However, these possibilities disappeared when Lucy hit me with a heart bomb. It was then that she destroyed the core to the time machine.

"Yeah. Then you disappeared and said that there would never be a change" Emmet said.

"Exactly! But then I didn't disappear. Look. In the timeline, many things would be wrong then. For how could I affect your present if I didn't exist at the time? I would never be there"

"Eeee..." he murmured. "I don't know"

The timeline disappeared and a purple circle appeared in its place.

"Let's suppose this circle is the dimension in which all these events took place with you, me and everyone else. Now, when there was no option for you to become me, the dimension was divided" He waved his hand and two were created from one circle. One was red, the other was blue. "Why did it happen? So that everything is correct on the timeline. I had to exist for you to become who you are now. I have influenced your events and not only yours. We're not the same person anymore. In my reality, I came across an asteroid, and in yours, I saved you. That is why I have the right to exist and you have the right to exist. And also, I was screwed to my dimension, because it was a side effect of splitting one dimension into two. Understood?"

"I think so. So, who are we now to ourselves? Are we somehow related?"

" I wonder too. We are completely different people or brothers" - He answered eating the last piece. "Okay, I'm gonna sleep" - He lay down on the leaves. "I have a vigilant dream, so I'll hear something trying to devour us."

When Emmet finished his meal, he joined him. For some time he couldn't sleep. It was all so exciting and scary at the same time. They don't know where. Who knows what will happen to them here. But he had little hope that nothing bad.

***

They were running through the thick forest to reach the ship faster. Unlike Brickowsky, Dangervest noticed some details. There was probably a sea or ocean nearby. The air smelled of saltwater. He also saw and heard birds flying in the blue sky, which reminded him of seagulls.

They came to the place where they saw broken trees and overturned trunks. His machine landed far nearby. They followed the trail of destroyed vegetation.

Rex twitched when he heard voices in the distance, coming from the direction they were heading. He told his friend to be quiet and to walk slowly and carefully.

They looked out from the bushes at the hollow into which the flying vehicle had fallen. The machine was surrounded by six people dressed in colorful costumes.

"I think they're ninja. They have weapons, so they are probably practicing some martial art. And they want to get my ship" He almost shouted when he said it. "As soon as I catch them..."

"Rex, wait!" He wanted to stop him, but he didn't catch him.

The cowboy jumped up. He raised his fist up, and when he landed, he hit the ground, causing a small shake.

This surprised the warriors. Black and blue were not knocked over by the shockwave because they were a little further away and stayed on their feet. They pulled out their weapons and attacked the attacker. Another, who helped him, joined the fight.

"Who are you?!" The ninja in green dress shouts, getting up. He pulled out his long sword.

"I wanted to ask the same question! Why are you doing with my ship?!" He missed the hammer blow. When Black wanted to hit him again, Rex grabbed the shaft of the hammer. The Black Ninja could not resist his strength. He has pushed away as if someone of normal strength wanted to hit him with a hammer.

"This is a misunderstanding! We do not want to..."

Red and Gray attacked Emmet without letting him finish. He clumsily avoided the two swords and the trident that tried to cut him.

"You attacked first!" The red ninja says angrily. His head and hands literally began to burn.

This situation completely confused them, and they didn't notice that the white ninja was aiming at them to bend their arms and legs with ice. The ice froze the bodies up to the back and stomach, making them almost unable to move.

"They are no longer danger" The white ninja announced taking off his mask. It was a robot with glowing blue eyes. His metal body made the contours of his face sharp, making him seem dangerous.

"We really don't want to fight! My friend made a mistake and it came out so stupid. He thought you were enemies" He tried to explain. His body trembled where it wasn't frozen. He was afraid that now they would kill them or do other cruel things.

Rex decided not to speak, for the time being, analyzing each warrior movement. Looking at them, he saw that they were teenagers or were at most twenty years old, but their age was at the end of the list of what he had learned about them. He had never seen such powers before, and since white wielded ice, then red probably with fire, blue with water or lightning. He also suspected that black possesses the element of earth, but he had no idea what power a girl and boy in green clothes had.

"We'll dissolve the ice if you can then forge and-"

"From one enslavement to another ?!" Rex Interrupted the Green Ninja.

"We're gonna forge you for some time. You can be enemies, so as defenders of Ninjago we must be careful. Do you accept it?" He put his hands in the back waiting for their reply.

"Okay, but if you try to do something, I guarantee Blondie that even the shackles won't stop me." Rex threatened, frowning brows. He looked like a dangerous predator who would be able to tear apart his prey in a few seconds.

The hands of the Red Ninja caught fire. He dissolved the ice that had imprisoned them and then rolled their hands together. Emmet hoped they would do nothing to them, but Dangervest checked the strength of the chains. He smiled slightly because he sensed that they would not be able to withstand his maximum strength, so if necessary he would be able to free himself.

They were taken aboard a flying ship, but it was not a space ship, but a wooden sea ship that had engines. The first time they saw such a construction, someone had a huge imagination that came up with such a crazy idea. Vest-friends heard that the ninja called it Destiny's Bounty.

The warriors decided that they would leave the Rex space vehicle for now, because they did not have the right transport equipment with them.

Ninja took strangers to one of the rooms. The room had few square meters, a white lamp illuminated the center of the room and a table with four chairs.

"So you're gonna interrogate us?" Emmet asked.

"That's right, questioning is necessary for such situations" White Ninja replied. Dangervest was annoyed that he didn't show any emotion on his metal face now. It is hard to read thoughts from total indifference and from artificial, glowing eyes.

"What are these cups for?" Brickowsky pointed at them. They all had the same color.

"This is the Tea of Truth. After drinking it, you can't lie. I'll drink too" The Green one provided. "But it won't work on my friend. It's here in case of complications" He specifically marked the last word so that they would know the consequences of their disobedience.

"And how can we be sure that you don't want to poison us?" Rex asked suspiciously, looking at the cups.

The Green Ninja took a sip of his tea. He waited a moment and told them to ask him any private question.

"It must be something severe ..." He scratched his short beard. "What was the most embarrassing situation in your entire life?"

"It's hard to choose one" He started it too surely. It was one of the effects of drinking this tea, excessive confidence and shamelessness at the time of the answer. "But it will probably be my first adventure with alcohol" He laughed at the memory. "I didn't know how much I could drink at a time. I drank two glasses and I was already drunk. Then, in boxer shorts and with a black cape made of a towel, I pretended to be younger myself. As a child, I wanted to be like my father and I wanted to be the biggest bad guy in Ninjago!" Immediately after confessing, he covered his mouth. "Did you have to ask something like that ?!"

"Now we have proof that tea is not poisonous and works," Rex said, laughing. He drank tea, and Emmet did the same after him. "Maybe we'll finally introduce ourselves because I don't know whether to speak to you White, Green or something else.

"I'm Zane, Master of Ice" He nodded slightly. "And this is Lloyd, Master of Energy and the leader of our team."

"I am Rex Dangervest. Archaeologist, cowboy, raptor trainer, woodwork amateur, MMA master and atypical photo model with expressive facial features, but you can call me Rex" He gestured quickly every time he mentioned who he was. Sometimes too fast to know exactly what he showed. "And this is Emmet Brickowsky.. We're friends, but we haven't seen each other for two years, so I have no idea what happened to him. We come from two twin dimensions."

"Why did you come to Ninjago?" Zane, like Rex, analyzed their every move. They were telling the truth thanks to tea, but the Master of Ice he considered every possible option, and if the strangers turned out to be enemies, they would be able to avoid the response that this drink forced. They could tell the truth, but not the whole story.

"We didn't plan it. Rex told me he wanted to get into my dimension, but something happened in his ship. The generator has broken down, but there is no energy left to propel the generator."

"Zane, do we still have Traveler's Tea?"

"No" He shook his head. "We're out of it."

Vest-friends looked at them like children who heard something complicated.

"Why are you looking like that?" Lloyd asked.

"Do you have tea for every problem? Tea of Truth, Traveler's Tea. How many more teas do you have?" He answered with a rhetorical question, but Zane didn't quite get it.

"Tomorrow's Tea, music, calming... There are some of them"

Rex rolled his eyes and Zane and Lloyd left the room closing them. They said they must consult.

"I'm not going to be locked up here" Dangervest muttered as he stood up. He was walking around.

"Maybe it won't be so bad. You have to look at it positively" Emmet tried to comfort him, though he had doubts about the ninja himself.

"If they lock us, I run away. I've spent enough time in captivity" He said in a shaky voice. He was afraid, but he never admitted it. He can't show it either for Ninja. He knew that some people use the fear of others to manipulate him.

Suddenly the door opened. All the ninja entered, and Dangervest returned to his seat. His leg twitched impatiently, knocking the surface of the shoe against the wooden floor.

"We'll have to take you to our Master, then we will know what we will do" Warrior leader informed them. "Let's go".

They got off the ship into the courtyard. They found a large wooden monastery. The builder noticed murals on the wall, guessed that they showed some historical events in which the warriors took part. The paintings were painted with great accuracy, and closer you could see some small but important details, but Emmet did not know what they meant.

They went inside. The indoor was decorated in a Japanese style. The walls were painted white, beige or black, checkered, thin doors slid sideways, and under the wooden floor, the heat was emitted thanks to the heaters installed there. In the corridor, somewhere there were tables with vases, and on the painted cherry blossoms.

Lloyd stopped in front of one door and opened it. Inside was an elderly man with a long white beard and a straw hat on his head, and in front of him, more to his right was a very low black table with a blue kettle and mug. Rex wanted to laugh because he associated it with several movies he had once watched. Masters often have beards and of course, they drank tea.

"Hello, Master Wu" Lloyd bowed. "They are Rex and Emmet, they are from another dimension. By accident, they came to ours and they have to find a way to get into their world. I suggest that they stay with us, Master."

"Do you want to have strangers in our monastery?" He asked getting up and turned his gaze to the newcomers. "Hmm ... Are you sure?"

"We listened to them with the help of truth tea. Of course, I'm not sure they can be trusted 100%, but it would also be unwise to let them go" Lloyd noticed. "They also have powers like us. However, these are not elemental powers, I think".

"No, I can't throw flaming fireballs" Rex denied it ironically. "But I and my friend are too strong and we can build quickly."

"Do you mean the power of creation?" Master Wu clearly interested.

"You can call it that. Although I prefer to call it the skill of breaking and building"

There was complete silence for a moment. Emmet was afraid of the verdict because he didn't know what they would do with them if they didn't accept them. After all, they could recognize that the potential threat is best to eliminate.

"Well, you can stay here. You'll get one room until you find a solution. However, if you try to hurt someone, I will find out about it first and you will deal with me." He threatened while improving his hat.

He is not kidding. He is definitely one of the strongest bosses. Dangervest interpreted it correctly. This is Master of Ninja, he only looks old and harmless. I already know so much of these people. It cannot be underestimated. I'd better watch him.

Lloyd laced them at the behest of the Master. They left his room and were led to another. It was a small bedroom with one bed, a desk and a wooden chair. The Green Ninja still brought a mattress because they only had this one free room, so they had to fit in one.

"If you're hungry, there'll be dinner" He said heading for the exit.

"We are hungry and don't be afraid. We won't cause problems." Emmet assured him.

"But I would be happy if there were problems. Because problems equal a new adventure." He put his foot on his leg. "And I like adventures"

Lloyd left their room without any comments. He thought they're a little strange, but he supposed it might be because they came from a completely different dimension.

He entered the dining room and sat in the chair. They always had two more places for guests, so newcomers could easily have dinner with them. The table had eight seats, but Wu rarely ate with them lately, because he mediated a lot.

"They will live here with us. Probably until they find a way out of our dimension." The leader informed them, sighing heavily. Rex reminded him of Ronin, a thief and manipulator who only cares about money. Of course, he could be wrong about him. He has made mistakes in assessing whether someone is an enemy several times.

"I guess we'll have to watch them." The Master of Fire said, resting his head on his hand. "Have you seen their clothes?"

"I wouldn't say something about their clothes" Nya Interrupted her brother. "We wear colorful outfits and that's probably weird to them too"

"Have you seen the strength of this bearded man ?! The Blue Ninja began with a shock in his voice. "He managed to stop Cole! Do you understand? Our strongest, and also completely without a sense of humor, friend!

"I will agree with it, but I do have a sense of humor! If I joke, it's ridiculous and you keep making not-funny jokes all the time!" Cole shouted starting a long argument with his best friend.

"Please calm down, you won't any get food" Zane threatened by placing sauces on the table.

"I'll eat my cake from the fridge" Cole said calmly.

"I can buy one. You won't scare us anymore, Zane" Jay laughed.

"I will stop making cakes for you Cole, and cancel all your records in your game, Jay" Zane states, making Master of Earth's and even Master of Lightning's mouth shut.

"Do you always argue like that?" Dangervest noticed joining the table with his friend. "I don't like silence, so let's talk. You know some strangers come, you suddenly fall silent and nobody knows what to say, just eat in silence. Let's skip it so as not to extend. Are you all family?"

"No, but Nya, my lovely girlfriend, has a brother Kai. It's the one in red, the one with the unkept hair" The Blue Ninja points at Kai. "And I'm Jay and this is Cole. You have already met Lloyd and Zane"

"Hey! It's not unkept! Every morning I use a gel to make my hair a big flame". He carefully amends his hair with his hand.

"And Lloyd is the nephew of our Master Wu" Jay adds at the end.

"So you are protectors of your world with some awesome powers and you can do Ninjutsu" Rex states.

"Not ninjutsu, it's Spinjitzu" Cole corrected him. Vest-friends have heard about such a thing for the first time."I'll show you later. Because if I used it here, I would destroy all the house"

"I can just say, it's a magic tornado". Jay says

Rex, despite the loose attitude to talk to them, still remained vigilant. He didn't trust anyone. Except for Emmet, he trusted him more than himself, but his friend is inattentive. At least not as attentive as he is. For now, nothing suspicious was found in the behaviour of the Ninja. One is crazy about cakes, the other talks all the time, but these are just such ordinary deviations. Everyone is different. However, appearances are deceptive. It is possible that they came up with the biggest bad guys in all this dimension and do not even know it. I must be careful. I will follow their every move.

***

"And what do you think of these ninja?" Rex asked and lay down on the mattress. He chose this place because he was already used to sleeping on hard ground and the mattress was like a very soft bed.

"They seem nice" He shrugged. "But I don't trust them that much yet. Maybeit'salso the firsttime I meetyou".

"At least it taught you something." - He smiled. "Let's go to sleep. If they are not up to something, then the Blue one will take us to the library. Maybe we canfind a clue."